John Piper may refer to:
Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
Put your ear to the ground of God's word and listen to the rumble of His faithfulness coming.
God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
The presence of hope in the invincible sovereignty of God drives out fear.
The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.
To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore. "
Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.
The bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
Adjust your doctrine - or just minimize doctrine - to attract the world, and in the very process of attracting them, lose the radical truth that alone can set them free.
The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.
God took the record of all your sins-all your sexual failures-that made you a debtor to wrath, and instead of holding them up in front of your face and using them as the warrant to send you to hell, he put them in the palm of his Son’s hand and nailed them to the cross.
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
I don’t know how people pray who don’t believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they’re possible I’ll do them.
Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.